PARENTS FLY OUT TO TRAGIC LAKE VICTIM
Postmortem after irish teenager Joshua drowns in spain accident
THE Irish teenager who drowned in a lake in Spain has been named as Joshua Osahon.
Sources said the 19-year-old was born in Nigeria but emigrated to Ireland with his family and lived in Portlaoise, Co Laois.
His parents flew to Madrid on Sunday night and were picked up in the Spanish capital before being driven 155 miles south to a hospital in Albacete to see their son’s body ahead of a postmortem. Joshua disappeared on Saturday evening after going for a swim at a lake called Laguna Salvadora, one of 15 that make up the Lagunas de Ruidera Natural Park.
He was with a group of Spanish youngsters and volunteers taking part in the Interway language course run by the Spanish education department.
Police divers found his body on Sunday afternoon just before 4pm.
Investigators said Joshua was a good swimmer and the area he was in was not known as being dangerous.
One well-placed source said: “The group Joshua was with had eaten before going in the water so they may find his death was the result of stomach cramps if he is not found to have an underlying health problem.”
Francisco Garcia Cano, a councillor in the municipality of Ossa de Montiel where the tragedy happened, added: “It appears the alarm was sounded as the foreign volunteers and Spaniards the Irish lad was with were picking up their belongings and heading back to their coach.”